Tag: Asia in Focus
Coverage of films from the Asia-Pacific region.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 31 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: An intriguing day of world enders, teenage angst and Japanese post-war cartooning at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival as we take a look at Eric Khoo’s Tatsumi, Azazel Jacobs Terri and the audience-splitting End of Animal from South Korea.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 30 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival enters its second weekend with a fine selection of films.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 28 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: The first week draws to a close at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, with a stack of goodies yet to come. We take a look at Lena Dunham’s mumblecore film Tiny Furniture, Sion Sono’s brutal masterpiece Cold Fish and Richard Ayoade’s sublime Submarine.
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KOFFIA 2011 – Korean Film Festival in Australia: Program Launch
NEWS: Australia’s premiere showcase of Korean cinema, the Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) returns for a second year, expanding its operations to Sydney and Melbourne and offering 13 feature films and 7 shorts from the emerging cinema of South Korea.
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First Look: Korean Film Festival in Australia 2011
NEWS: Back for a second year, the Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) has unveiled its poster for the 2011, along with two award winning short films announced earlier this week: Park Chan-wook’s Paranmanjang (Night Fishing) and Yang Hyo-joo’s Pu-Seo-Jin Bam (Broken Night).
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Icon adds ‘Mayday 3DNA’, ‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’, ‘Project Nim’ to 2011 slate
NEWS: Icon has announced their Australia release slate for the rest of the year.
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Curious announces ‘Norwegian Wood’ & ‘Red State’ dates, 2011 schedule
NEWS: Curious Film have announced their 2011 schedule for Australia and there are some major coups. In addition to the previously announced Norwegian Wood, Curious has scored Kevin Smith’s horror film Red State, Australia’s Toomelah and Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
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Review: The Borrower Arrietty (aka Arrietty aka The Secret World of Arrietty)
REVIEW: Studio Ghibli has already created a number of classic modern tales enjoyed the world over, and debut feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi borrows from Mary Norton’s series of beloved children’s novels for the seventeenth film under the Ghibli banner.
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First Look: 15th Japanese Film Festival
NEWS: Following the massive success of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in 2010, the Japan Foundation has announced that the 15th Japanese Film Festival will be even bigger than the previous one with Australian premieres of GANTZ, The Last Ronin and more!
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First Look: ‘Wu Xia’ Trailer
TRAILER: Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s Wu Xia, also known as Dragon, is the next Chinese-language film to get a release in Australia. We now get a look at the full trailer of the new Donnie Yen vehicle, still kicking after all these years. It also stars Tang Wei and the internationally recognisable Takeshi Kaneshiro in this…
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